Joined the Nagant Pistol Club

Stopped by a local gun shop today. There was a guy in there selling a gun. They said it was not a big seller. People wouldnt be busting down the door to buy it. Not sure what they gave him. He left, I said make me a deal.

75.00 out the door right now. I said okay. Nagant Pistol 1945 Date, still smells like cosmo. Still some in the barrel. Guess he never shot it.

That makes 10 guns in 5 months. 8 used. 2 new. And 2 old 12 guage Columbian shotguns a guy gave me. made wall art into one and gave it back. The second I am keeping as art. They were not shootable, unless you are suicidal. His brother got them out of a dumpster after an estate sale.

Gun store guys didn't have any 7.62x38R ammo, I said no prob. He does have Mosin cans.

Those 1895 Nagants are neet. Firing pin like a nail, and did you notice the cylinder comes forward as it rotates into battery and locks into place to seal the barrel/cylinder gap just before the firing pin drops..

Oh yeah, and if you have a bit of trouble finding the funky lookin 7.62X38 cartridges it shoots, you can shoot .32 colt from them. course it swells the brass a bit so it wont reload easily. But it is safe to do so.

$75 is a pretty good price. I bought two back when they were something like $69.95 each or 2 for $64.95 each, and I bought two of them. I think I got them from Century International. I have seen someone selling a replacement cylinder to shoot the .32 ACP in it, but I don't remember who it was.

Great little plinkers, fun using cast lead for ringing the spinners.
Very easy to reload for, using .32-20 brass and the Lee die set. Of course, it means no gas sealing, which is okay for me. Nearly as cheap as a .22, as the brass lasts forever at that low pressure. A buddy casts our bullets from scrap lead.
These guns look funky enough to always get some comments from other range patrons. Good companion for my Mosin rifles too.

Those 1895 Nagants are neet. Firing pin like a nail, and did you notice the cylinder comes forward as it rotates into battery and locks into place to seal the barrel/cylinder gap just before the firing pin drops..

Oh yeah, and if you have a bit of trouble finding the funky lookin 7.62X38 cartridges it shoots, you can shoot .32 colt from them. course it swells the brass a bit so it wont reload easily. But it is safe to do so.

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Thats why you can put a suppressor on it..there is a video on You Tube of it. Very cool.

There are several variations of the Nagant if you ever want to collect them. For example, this M1895 Nagant was made by Nagant in Belgium in 1898. The majority of the early Russian made M1895 revolvers were single action only.

I have a friend who opened up his cylinder with a 32-20 chamber reamer. He shoots either 32-20 cast bullet .311" pistol ammo or original Russian. I reload the shite box Russian target cases, but it is a pain and I will soon run out of the Berdan primers.

I'm not in favor of altering these old revolvers with a chamber reamer. Sure, they are cheap and easy to find now but that won't last forever. It's also easy enough to get a set of dies to resize 32-20 brass for the Nagant - and that's much cheaper than buying a chamber reamer.